CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: The Democratic Party Is Starving to Death.
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February 24, 2025
SKYNET SMILES:
Today I was sent the following cool demo:
Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave pic.twitter.com/TeewgxLEsP
— Georgi Gerganov (@ggerganov) February 24, 2025
Say what you will about Hal, Colossus, and Skynet’s Terminator robots, they at least all had the decency to speak in conversational English while they were plotting to eliminate their human overlords.
PRIVACY RIGHTS UPDATE: Bill Prohibits Tennessee Doctors From Asking Patients About Gun Ownership.
WELL, GOOD: Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Trade to Reimpose Maximum Pressure. “We will continue to disrupt such illicit funding streams for Iran’s malign activities. As long as Iran devotes its energy revenues to financing attacks on our allies, supporting terrorism around the world, or pursuing other destabilizing actions, we will use all the tools at our disposal to hold the regime accountable.”
ANALYSIS: True.
🎯 I've said it again, I'll say it again. Taxpayer-funded NGOs function as a parallel government.
Even worse, many sitting members of Congress are directly involved in them. They see themselves as the real government, prioritizing debates with other bureaucrats on the global… https://t.co/5WPsLWtNT9
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 24, 2025
More:
The Bill of Rights was meant to keep Feds out of religion & press.
NGOs grab $30B+ in grants to bypass it: faith-based groups resettle migrants, 'nonprofit' journalism pushes propaganda.
Regan v. Taxation (1983) made it legal. It’s a loophole undermining freedom.
Time to…
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) February 24, 2025
READER FAVORITE: Under Desk Elliptical Machine. #CommissionEarned
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI:
🚨🇺🇸83% OF VOTERS DEMAND SPENDING CUTS
New poll: 83% of Americans want the government to cut spending instead of raising taxes—but D.C. just kept spending under Biden.
– 67% say the debt is unsustainable
– 83% want the budget balanced
– 77% demand a full review of government… https://t.co/NIKtdoWIpJ pic.twitter.com/s6rga6WLRn— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 24, 2025
Trump and DOGE have a mandate and that scares the hell out of the rest of Washington.
THE GALACTIC EMPIRE’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
CAN TRUMP BE PRO DOGE AND EARMARKS BOTH? Little remembered fact about President Donald Trump’s first term: It was then that both political parties in both chambers of Congress reopened the door to earmarks that Sen. Tom “Bridge to Nowhere” Coburn (R-Okla.) killed in 2011.
For whatever reason, Trump did not then make an issue of the return of earmarks, which is particularly surprising now considering the success he’s having with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
John Hart, CEO of OpenTheBooks, was Coburn’s communications wizard and he wonders in an important Substack column today why killing earmarks for good is nowhere to be seen on the DOGE agenda. Why is it important? Because:
“In the 11 years before the ban was instituted, from 2000 to 2010, Congress spent an average of $20.4 billion per year on earmarks. In the 11 years the ban was in place, from 2011 to 2021, the average dropped to $7.6 billion — a 61 percent decrease,” Hart writes.
“The earmark ban created savings far beyond earmarks. Coburn often argued that ‘earmarks are the gateway drug to Washington’s spending addiction,’ and history proved him right. Getting rid of earmarks helped Congress sober up and reduce overall spending for the first time since the end of the Korean War shortly after the ban went into effect,” he said.
Cyberpunks breached a television at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday morning, broadcasting a stomach-turning AI video of President Trump caressing and kissing the feet of billionaire Elon Musk.
The sickening sight, which was first reported by Vox journalist Rachel Cohen, was played on a TV in a cafeteria at the agency’s headquarters while blaring the message: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
Congressional Democrats, lefty pundits and other critics have taken to calling the tech mogul “President Musk,” in a seeming effort to irk Trump and highlight the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s level of influence in administrative decision-making.
“Not all heroes wear capes,” Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee cheered on X in response to the video.
I’m sure a lot of HUD employees will soon be transitioning to Jen Psaki’s vaunted “green jobs.”
The bureaucracy seems intent on proving that they're an insulated self interest group who believes itself to be unaccountable to American democracy and should be fired.
They keep accidentally proving the point for retweets. https://t.co/Q4MZgpLH8m
— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) February 24, 2025
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, HERE ARE THE RANKINGS FOR THOSE TRENDING OVER 50% AT POLYMARKET:
But by volume, nobody has generated more bets than Barack Obama. A yes vote for him is only 24 cents — what a bargain!
Update: Oops, I forgot the link.
SKYNET CRINGES AT THIS DESCRIPTION, WHICH IS TOO CREEPY EVEN FOR SKYNET: Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling.
STARSHIP FLIGHT TEST 8 IS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY:
The seventh flight test of Starship ended before reaching its ambitious goals. Lessons learned are being applied to future vehicles to make them more reliable. A technical summary of the investigation can be found here → https://t.co/bPVruJ0uY7 pic.twitter.com/9noR4rrs7W
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 24, 2025
BECAUSE IT’S CRUEL AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE? Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”.
YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP, THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Concealed carry grows in Colorado; over twenty-nine thousand new permits in 2024. “Colorado is what is what is known as a ‘shall issue’ state, meaning as long as an applicant passes the basic requirements set out by law, the issuing authority is, for the most part, required to issue a permit.”
The Democrats who dominate our state government have made it more difficult to obtain a CCW, but they haven’t gone after the state’s shall-issue status that’s been in effect since 2003.
At least not yet.
‘IT MELTED DOWN:’ Top Biden Advisor Says Democrat Party ‘Lost Its Mind’ After Disastrous Debate.
During a recent discussion at Harvard University, former Biden senior advisor Mike Donilon delusionally said (emphasis, mine):
Now, lots of people have terrible debates. Lots of people have terrible debates. Usually, the party doesn’t lose its mind, but that’s what happened here. It melted down.
With due respect, Mr. Donilon, Biden — with a vacant “where the hell am I?” look on his face — was at times visibly confused, and other times, totally unintelligible. In my book — and the books of tens of millions of Americans, including untold numbers of Democrat voters — the former president’s disastrous performance was well beyond a “terrible debate.”
Not to further nitpick, but even left-“leaning” CNN and the BBC ran headlines calling the performance “disastrous” and “incoherent.”
CNN senior reporter Stephen Collinson wrote in an article:
If Joe Biden loses November’s election, history will record that it took just 10 minutes to destroy a presidency. It was clear a political disaster was about to unfold as soon as the 81-year-old commander in chief stiffly shuffled on stage in Atlanta.
Exactly. Democrats who continue to fail to see that reality, much less admit it, are lying to themselves. For the sake of their party, they rode their all-but-dead horse far too long.
I’m not sure if it was for “the sake of their party” so much as wanting to maintain an awesome amount of personal power and DNC-MSM cachet for as long as possible, by doing everything in their power to hide John Gill’s ever-increasing infirmities.
IS THERE ANYTHING THESE DRUGS CAN’T DO? Cocaine user experiences reduced withdrawal cravings with GLP-1 therapy, case study reports. We’ll see if that pans out.
CHRISTOPHER RUFO, HANNAH GROSSMAN: The NSA’s Secret Sex Chats.
The “intelligence community” is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus. In theory, it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according to internal documents that we obtained, some intelligence agency employees have another on-the-job priority: sex chats.
We have cultivated sources within the National Security Agency—one current employee and one former employee—who have provided chat logs from the NSA’s Intelink messaging program. According to an NSA press official, “All NSA employees sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission related material on Intelink is a usage violation and will result in disciplinary action.” Nonetheless, these logs, dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.
One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. “[M]ine is everything,” said one male who claimed to have had gender reconstruction surgery. “[I]’ve found that i like being penetrated (never liked it before GRS), but all the rest is just as important as well.” Another intelligence official boasted that genital surgery allowed him “to wear leggings or bikinis without having to wear a gaff under it.”
These employees discussed hair removal, estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual pleasure post-castration. “[G]etting my butthole zapped by a laser was . . . shocking,” said one transgender-identifying intel employee who spent thousands on hair removal. “Look, I just enjoy helping other people experience boobs,” said another about estrogen treatments. “[O]ne of the weirdest things that gives me euphoria is when i pee, i don’t have to push anything down to make sure it aims right,” a Defense Intelligence Agency employee added.
Put on your Patrick Bateman-style plastic raincoat or hazmat suit and read the whole thing.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Big Brother, the Special Relationship & Doing the Best Wrong Thing.
LEGACY MEDIA REARRANGES DECK CHAIRS: Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of ‘NBC Nightly News’ after a decade.
Lester Holt, the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” for a decade, announced Monday that he is stepping down from the long-running broadcast at the beginning of the summer.
Holt will continue to be a fixture at the network with a full-time role at “Dateline,” where he has been the principal anchor for almost 15 years, according to a memo shared with network staff Monday.
NBC News did not immediately name Holt’s successor.
Holt was named anchor of “Nightly News” in June 2015 after steering weekend editions of the news broadcast for eight years and co-anchoring “Weekend TODAY” for 12 years. He has served as principal anchor of “Dateline” since September 2011.
In 2016, the Democratic Party operative with a Chyron was asked: ‘Was Lester Holt auditioning for Hillary’s press secretary?’ NBC moderator is criticized for Clinton bias by failing to ask about her emails or Benghazi.
“I want to ask you about a moment at the town hall the other day. A young man, a Bernie Sanders supporter, stood up and said young people don’t trust you….And when he said that, I winced. And I was wondering, you’ve obviously been in tough battles, political battles, but do you get your feelings hurt sometimes?”
— Anchor Lester Holt to Hillary Clinton on NBC Nightly News, January 29.